Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar

Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (10 April 1792 – 16 April 1875), known as Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Baronet from 1846 to 1859, was a Welsh Whig peer and a member of the House of Lords.

Early life Morgan was born on 10 April 1792. He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Mary Margaret Stoney. Among his younger brothers were George Gould Morgan, MP for Brecon, Charles Augustus Samuel Morgan, and the antiquarian Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan. Among his sisters were Maria (wife of Francis Miles Milman),

His maternal grandfather was Capt. George Stoney of the Royal Navy. His paternal grandparents were Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet (originally Charles Gould) and the former Jane Morgan (daughter of Judge Advocate Thomas Morgan). His great aunt Jane married the industrialist Samuel Homfray.

He was educated at Harrow School, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (1811).

Career

He was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon in 1812 and was re-elected in 1830 and 1835. Upon his father's death in 1846, he succeeded the Morgan Baronetcy, created for his grandfather in 1792.

He served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and later in the militia (the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, commissioned as Major on 3 April 1849), and was appointed High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1821–22 and High Sheriff of Brecknockshire for 1850–51. He was created Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth on 16 April 1859 and had five sons and six daughters, including: Hon. Rosamond Marion Morgan (1830–1883), who married Sir William Style, 9th Baronet, in 1848. Hon. Selina Maria Morgan (d. 1922), who married David Robertson Williamson, nephew of David Williamson, Lord Balgray, in 1853. MP for Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire who married Charlotte Anne Williamson, daughter of Charles Alexander Williamson of Lawers. Hon. Frances Henrietta Morgan (–1887), who married Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet, son of Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, in 1854.

Descendants Through his daughter Ellen, he was a grandfather of Lt.-Col. Morgan Lindsay, Maj.-Gen. George Mackintosh Lindsay, Lionel Arthur Lindsay, who was also chief constable of Glamorgan.

Through his son Frederic, Morgan was a grandfather of Courtenay and Frederic Morgan, later the 3rd and 5th Barons Tredegar respectively, and great-grandfather of Evan and John Morgan, the 4th and 6th respective Barons Tredegar.